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8th Grade Essential Vocabulary Week 1
Week 1 Eng 8 Essential Vocab Words
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8th Grade
08/14/2013

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Genre

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A category of literature, marked by a distincitive style, form, or content
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Fiction
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A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact
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Drama
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A prose or verse composition, telling a serious story that is intended to be acted for theater, television, radio, or the cinema
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Mystery
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A work of fiction, drama, or film dealing with a puzzling crime
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Nonfiction
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A piece of writing usng only facts
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Poetry
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A piece of literature written in meter and/or verse; doesn't have to rhyme and is often in short, choppy form.
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Autobiography
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A person's life story written by himself or herself
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Biography
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A person's life story written by someone else
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Noun
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The name of a person, place, thing, or idea
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Verb
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A word that whows action, state of being, or links the subject to the predicate of a sentence
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Pronoun
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A word used as a substitute for a noun
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Adjective
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A word that modifies or describes a noun or a pronoun
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Adverb
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A word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
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Preposition
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A word used to show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence
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Conjunction
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A word that joins words, phrases, and clauses
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